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1 Read | mixed with, or built on, falsehood.~In the Second Edition I 2 I, II | not capable of truth or falsehood. To make it capable of being 3 I, II | he judgeth of truth and falsehood, right and wrong; which 4 I, III | whose task is to show the falsehood or improbability of any 5 II, XXXII | False Ideas ~1. Truth and falsehood properly belong to propositions, 6 II, XXXII | ideas. Though truth and falsehood belong, in propriety of 7 II, XXXII | a centaur having no more falsehood in it when it appears in 8 II, XXXII | than the name centaur has falsehood in it, when it is pronounced 9 II, XXXII | written on paper. For truth or falsehood lying always in some affirmation 10 II, XXXII | certain, That this sort of falsehood is much more familiarly 11 II, XXXII | concerning the truth and falsehood of our ideas, in reference 12 II, XXXII | Secondly, as to the truth and falsehood of our ideas, in reference 13 II, XXXII | liable to any imputation of falsehood, if the mind (as in most 14 II, XXXII | carry any imputation of falsehood to our simple ideas, if 15 II, XXXII | at all confounded, or any falsehood be in either. For all things 16 II, XXXII | in this respect makes no falsehood in the ideas; as if a man 17 II, XXXII | capable of neither truth nor falsehood. But when I give the name 18 II, XXXII | exist together.~19. Truth or falsehood always supposes affirmation 19 II, XXXII | true or false. For truth or falsehood, being never without some 20 II, XXXII | themselves agree or disagree; and falsehood in the contrary, as shall 21 II, XXXII | represent. But the mistake and falsehood is:~21. But are false—when 22 II, XXXII | idea; though indeed the falsehood lies not in the idea, but 23 II, XXXII | propriety of speech, truth or falsehood will, I think, scarce agree 24 II, XXXIII| should knowingly maintain falsehood: some at least must be allowed 25 II, XXXIII| and makes them not see the falsehood of what they embrace for 26 III, VII | is in words no truth or falsehood, the mind does, in declaring 27 III, VIII | first hearing perceives the falsehood of these propositions: humanity 28 IV, II | knowledge, and men embrace often falsehood for demonstrations.~8. Hence 29 IV, III | colouring or support of falsehood, to maintain a system, interest, 30 IV, III | avow that he has espoused a falsehood, and received into his breast 31 IV, III | to examine their truth or falsehood; and will not let truth 32 IV, IV | if not a very dangerous falsehood, if I should say that some 33 IV, V | mind distinguishes it from falsehood.~2. A right joining or separating 34 IV, V | have existed.~9. Truth and falsehood in general. Truth is the 35 IV, V | disagreement of ideas as it is. Falsehood is the marking down in words 36 IV, V | certain of their real truth or falsehood.~I shall begin with general 37 IV, VI | certain of their truth or falsehood, when we perceive the ideas 38 IV, VII | the standards of truth and falsehood. By which familiar use of 39 IV, VII | make men receive and retain falsehood for manifest truth, and 40 IV, VII | cannot discern the truth or falsehood of such propositions, without 41 IV, VIII | attain no real truth or falsehood. This, perhaps, if well 42 IV, IX | propositions of whose truth or falsehood we can have certain knowledge 43 IV, XIV | conversant about truth and falsehood:—~First, KNOWLEDGE, whereby 44 IV, XV | since there is much more falsehood and error among men than 45 IV, XVI | that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can 46 IV, XVII | are so much in love with falsehood and mistake, that they would 47 IV, XVII | unless it be to discover the falsehood and reject the influence 48 IV, XVIII | difference between truth and falsehood, no measures of credible 49 IV, XIX | and delusions, truth and falsehood, will have the same measure, 50 IV, XX | unerring deciders of truth and falsehood, and the judges to which 51 IV, XX | score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten